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  • Insomnia well spent

  • I'm in the same spot.Never liked the way Apple does things. Never bought an Apple product. But the last few months, I've been considering an Apple TV sub. I'm watching 5 or 6 series, and have enjoyed several of their movies.

    I might even give up Netflix for it. Which feels strange, since my Netflix account is nearly as old as Netflix itself. Used to rip so many Netflix DVDs.

  • It isOne you're using to avoid the point

  • That's an assumption.But even if true, it's immaterial to my point.

  • Of course not. But this is about opening up people to more broad ways of thinking. You seem to be ignoring anything broader than humans. Not all people are humans.

  • In humans that's true.But what of alien body hopping slugs, who are half themselves and half their host? It doesn't seem right to assume the blending of consciousness and frequent body swapping wouldn't change that notion.

    As I said, it's substantially different.

  • Is it outdated, or just substantially different?Human ideas of identity don't incorporate a person literally moving from one aged body to another youthful one, several times over hundreds of years.

  • If that's not a "We beat Medicare" moment I don't know what one is.

  • Nothing really.Until you actually have the money, you kinda can't do anything different.

    Maybe if it was a sure thing you could take a loan out against it. But in this case it's not a sure thing.

  • I did. Court would be a coin toss. They'll settle.

  • I hadn't thought of that. It's a compelling point.You should really become a litigator.

  • The band should not get to lay claim all these different interpretations from their name alone.

    Which is exactly what they're NOT doing. They had a name that was working for them for 25 years. They never sued anyone over using that name, because none of the other uses caused any problem for them. But now one has. When trying to find and identify a band named demon hunters, there is confusion with the movie. People can't find the actual band any more. It's only right for Netflix to compensate them for that harm.

    I'm sure they'll settle out of court, and come up with a new band name.Demon Slayers sounds obvious to me. Or maybe The First Demon Hunters.

  • Absolutely agree. They shouldn't be able to go after every use of demon hunters. And they aren't. They're only going after the one that's caused actual demonstrable damage to the use of their trademark.

  • The thing they have to fight though is that when you register for a trademark, it doesn't apply to every sector.

    Absolutely true! Which is why it's good that they're both in the entertainment sector.And I'm sure it's a non zero percentage of people who do think the fictional band is called Demon Hunters. But that may not even matter. There is a lot of overlap, being both in entertainment, and about music and bands etc. Hell, both are even about actual demons! This is a Christian metal band after all.

  • Netflix is the distributor. They do approve the title it's sold under.

    It's not about the search rankings directly, that's just a signal of the effect of the trademark dilution for the band. It's proof of the damage.

  • They actually have a decent case here.

    They've been a band with a trademarked name for 25 years. Netflix used that same name as part if the movie title. The band can show measurable harm to their trademarked brand, by citing Google search results for Demon Hunter.

    I can't imagine Netflix would change the name of the movie, but paying the band for the damage to their trademark, and compensation for having to rebrand and trademark a new band name is a reasonable cost of success for Netflix.

    In short, it isn't very Oniony

  • Oh yah! That's great!

  • The extra $250 was being charged by a US reseller.With Fair Phone selling direct to the US now, it's available for MSRP.I can't say how "cheep" $650 is to you.

  • Ships with 16.17 only just released.And they promise software support through 2033. Though that's a vague term, not sure about full version updates.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

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